The Standard Oratorios

The oratorio in its modern form is a musical setting of a sacred story or text in a style more or less dramatic.

This book is written with the intention to present the readers with a comprehensive outline of the oratorios that are considered as standard, the sacred stories they tell and their principal numbers along with a short biography of the composer.

In this book, apart from the oratorios, you will also read about the origin and development of the Oratorio as a type of music, the evolutionary stages and descriptions of several works which are not actually oratorios, but are sacred compositions performed by oratorio societies.

This book is written for all the readers, not only for the musicians, and doesn’t have technical terms. It is a description of this type of music, providing accurate historical and chronological facts.

In it you will read about:

• Bach 
• Beethoven
• Berlioz
• Costa
• Dvorák 
• Gounod 
• Haydn 
• Liszt 
• Mendelssohn 
• Mozart 
• Rubinstein 
• Schumann 
• Verdi, and many other composers and their oratorios.